And everybody praised the Duke
Who this great fight did win. 
"But what good came of it at last?"
Quoth little Peterkin.
"Why, that I cannot tell," said he;
"But 'twas a famous victory."

Share markets in the United States and Europe have dipped after US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke all but ruled out more economic stimulus.

Football Federation Australia (FFA) has terminated Gold Coast United's A-League licence held by Clive Palmer.

Labor may just be able to get on with governing before it's too late.

Scotland Yard helped the former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks to go out hacking, it was revealed yesterday – but the arrangement owed nothing to the interception of mobile phone messages.

New archaeological evidence suggests that America was first discovered by Stone Age people from Europe – 10,000 years before the Siberian-originating ancestors of the American Indians set foot in the New World.

picture by Gus Leonisky.... Hopefully this is in the vicinity of Arkaroola... For more than 40 years I've taken pictures in Australia, some pictures got stolen, some have lost their identification... so I go by my memory which is flinching like a candle in the wind of forgetfullness...